)With Mandriva, and with Mageia to begin with, my Brother MFCs have not worked from the USB connection, and I have been using the App-Socket connection on Port 9100. Brother Support said the problem was in Mandriva's udev rules, and gave up.
Yesterday, I installed a power saver supplied by our Government, which somehow blocked the printer (and wouldn't let my wife turn the TV on. I doubt that they meant it that way.
) Reconfiguring my MFC-490CW, I found that the USB connection now works. A wired connection avoids many problems.I have been seeing repeated references to the buggy mess Mandriva was in when Mageia picked it up, one just a couple of days ago. This sounds like another one.
